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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:29:05 -0500
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re-partitioning FreeBSD system "on the fly" 
Message-ID:  <200002232129.QAA09250@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>  of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:19:51 PST." <200002232119.NAA01158@ptavv.es.net> 

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>I have a FreeBSD system on a 13 GB disk which I really want to
>re-partition by trimming the 12 GB /usr partition back to 9 GB and
>creating a new partition of 3 GB.
>
>Is there a safe way to do this without dumping the partition,
>re-partitioning, and restoring it?

No.  This is plain old ufs.  Under the covers sysinstall is just running
newfs.

>It looks like this should be
>possible, but I don't feel really comfortable about it.

Good.  Trust your instincts!  :-)

-Mitch


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